Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1940, Page 3

150,000 Nazi Pilots . Estimated on Rolls For War Duty 60 Gliding Schools Have Been in Operation Since Late in 1936 B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20.—Germany has & minimum of 150,000 pilots to throw into a “full-out” air war if the Scandinavian adventure pre- cipitates a final decision on the question of air power versus sea power, estimated today. The figure is based on the output of airmen by German gliding and soaring schools since the Nazis eame to power. Sixty schools, each graduating 1,000 students a year, have been in operation since late in 1936. A somewhat smaller number of schools was training pilots in motorless flight between 1933 and 1936, The graduates are so well versed in fiying after six weeks of instruc- tion that they are able to pilot advanced military training planes after a couple of hours of coach- ing. More Apt Men Retained. Only the more apt students in| power flying are retained for mili- tary service. Hence the estimate on the number of men actually avail- able now to pilot the planes which, the Nazis have hinted broadly, may be used to settle the question of military superiority with the allies. | By comparison, Great Britain, up to the start of the war last reliable American sources | September, was aiming at a total air force, exclusive of that attached | to the navy, of 100,000 men—includ- ing mechanics, radio men and| bombardiers. | Counting on their air power to MORROW, OHIO.—FLOOD INU) N THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 21, 1940—PART ONE Wooden Structures At Gallinger Urged g |For Convalescents Advisory Committee Makes Suggestion To Dr. Ruhland Health Officer George C. Ruhland yesterday took under advisement & suggestion from one of his advisory committees that four old wooden structures at Gallinger Hospital be continued in service for possible use for convalescent and chronic pa- tients after completion of the new general medical ward building. ‘The proposal recalled that in ap- proving appropriations for an ex- panded personnel at Gallinger the House District Appropriations Sub- committee, then headed by Repre- sentative Collins, Democrat, of Mis- sissippi, issued an “order” to the Health Department that when the new buildings were opened the old frame structures must be torn down. The feeling of the subcommittee was that the Health Department and its friends had been using the IN § HOURS AT ARTHUR MURRAY'S You can learn the Rumbs quick- ly, easily, at the Arthur Murray Studios. And for less money. You learn in less time under capable, experienced instructors. Don't wait! It's grand fun, good exercise —and you'll be twice as popular. Ethel M. Fistere’s Arthur Murray Studio 1101 Conn. Avenus DI. 2460 old frame buildings year after year as an argument for increased ap- propriations for Gallinger. While this so-called “gentlemen’s agree- ment” was not written into the law the views of the Collins group ap- peared in the hearings and, it is| said, might be used as an indication | of the intent of Congress in the case of Gallinger appropriations. | Meanwhile Congress has received | suggestions for the provision of ade- quate facilities for use as a conva- lescent home for patients who need further care but for whom less ex- pensive care might be provided out- side Gallinger Hospital. There ls} no provision in the District supply | bill for the next fiscal year for this PACKARD WASHINGTON Showrooms and Service 24th ot N *RE. 0123 BRANCH SHOWROOM Dupont Circle Building MELVERN ICE CREAM ATES OHIO TOWN—When the Little Miami River (left background) overflowed yesterday, this Southeastern Ohio town pre- sented this scene of damp desolation as flood waters covered streets and yards <> - and seeped into homes. Residents in lowland areas were forced to leave their houses as the normally harmless river rose. Morrow is 30 miles northeast of Cincinnati. —A. P. Wirephoto. project, however, and this is said to have given rise to the possibility of | retaining the four old Gallinger | frame structures. offset British sea power and frank- ly regarding their flyers as expend- &ble as infantrymen when the time for “total war” came, the Germans < have used glider training as the foundation of their air force per- sonnei. London Output Above Average. | At the “model” German glider | school in Hornberg, near Stuttgart, | equipped with a hotel and a swimming pool, 120 pilots were being | graduated every six weeks before | the war. The output was above the | average for the 60 schools, but the training technique was the same. Accomplished aerobatic pilots at | graduation time, the students ad- | vanced quickly to flying pursuit | planes and bombers. Total instruc- | tion time for a first-class military pilot was cut to a third of that re- | quired in normal training procedure. | Through the Civil Aeronautics | Authority, the Government is en- | couraging glider flying in this coun- | try on a small scale, Americans Reported Safe At Bergen, Trondheim Americans at Bergen and Trond- heim were reported safe yesterday | in the first communication the State | Department has received from those points since the German invasion of Norway last week. The message came indirectly from Maurice P. Dunlap, American Con- sul at Bergen, who reported through the German Legation to Raymond E. Cox, first secretary of the Ameri- can Legation at Oslo. Apparently German forces control all communi- cation facilities from Bergen. Mr. Cox relayed Mr. Dunlap’s message to the State Department. It read: “All Americans at Bergen, in- eluding officers and crew of the Flying Fish and Charles McCormick, have shifted locality and are in neighboring safer places, cargo in- tact. Information received from Trondheim that all well.” Latest estimates list 200 American citizens resident in the Bergen can- sular district, which includes Trond- heim. The Flying Fish and Charles Mc- Cormick are American freighters which were in port at Bergen when the war spread to Scandinavia. The State Department has asked co- operation of the belligerents to facil- itate their safe return through the combat area. Budget of 10 Billions Expected in Brifain By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 20.—Britons look hopefully for few surprises and “no shocks” in the war-swollen budget to be presented Tuesday in the House of Commons by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The nation probably will have to pay the equivalent of $10,000,000,000 for war and government in the 1940-41 fiscal year. Already Britons are wrestling with a 375 per cent income tax and it is expected this will be spread over a wider base, reaching lower income brackets than heretofore, Other possibilities mentioned for increased revenue were an addi- tional surtax on large incomes of the excess profits tax from 60 to 70 per cent, higher postage rates and in- creased taxes on tobacco and whisky and a tax on bicycles, so far un- taxed. Direct war costs will take the equivalent of about $7,000,000,000. Britain’s costs have not yet hit the ak of the World War, the 1918-19 udget estimate, which, at the cur- rent exchange, would have amounted $o more than $10,750,000,000. Uruguay now has only 181 movie theaters with seats for 72,000 people. Big Words Bring Approval of $1.24 Collar Button Bill By the Aszociated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif.,, April 20—The State controller’s of- fice was unable to understand why Santa Barbara State Col- lege purchased 12 collar but- tons costing $1.34. It asked for an_explanation. Bernice Toucey, account clerk &t the college, replied: “Dr. Sweet explained that the collar buttons were used ‘as a device on a tambour to cut kymographic tracings from a carotid pulse.’” ‘The controller’s office planned | closure that two British cargo ships, [ __(Continued From First Page.\__ ern front since the Norwegian cam- paign began. A Paris dispatch cred- ited the French with shooting down three German planes and the Bel- gians with felling one. 4. Allied forces in Norway “occu- pied certain positions of vantage” on April 19, and operations there are “proceeding according to plan.” Reuters, British news agency, re- ported an official Swedish an- nouncement from Stockholm that Swedish anti-aircraft guns had fired on three German planes fly- ing over Southwestern Sweden and that one was believed to have come | down in the sea off Goteborg. Big Air Battle Off Coast. Rejoicing over these reported successes was tempered by the dis- | the Mersey, 1,037-ton coastal steam- er, and the Hawnby, 5404-ton| freighter, had been sunk by mines | off the southeast coast, with 13 dead or missing. The sinkings, which Britons said climaxed new Nazi aerial mine- | laying operations in an effort to| block off the flow of allied troops to Norway, were followed by a pro- longed and spectacular air battle| between British planes and shore | batteries and German air raiders. The German planes appeared | within & few hours of the two ships’ | sinking. As on a previous raid last Wednesday night, British planes| sped out to sea to engage the Ger-| mans. Firing, reported to be the heaviest of the war off the south- | east coast, continued until shortly after 11 pm. ‘The sputtering flares, the sweep- ing beams of searchlights and the | LEBANON, OHIO.—TRUCK UPSETS—DRIVER ESCAPES—Jack Fund, 41, of Cincinnati, escaped death during Friday night’s sudden flood when his 12-wheeled oil truck upset and plunged into 12 feet of water in Clear Creek. This picture shows the truck upside down in the creek bed after waters receded somewhat yesterday. —A. P. Wirephoto. flash of the guns drew scores of | coastal residents to the sea front | after the raiders swept out of the | northeast to be attacked by the | British fighters and anti-aircraft guns. Then the hour-long fight ended as abruptly as it started and the Germans headed toward the north- west. ‘The Hawnby and the Mersey were the first British ships destroyed by mines im-the southeast coastal area this month. The Air Ministry announced that there was “air activity” in the neighborhood of the Thames Estuary also late tonight. No attacks on shipping or air raid warnings oc- curred there, however, it was said. Troops Pushing South. ‘The vanguard of the allied expe- dition in Norway, consisting of two British divisions and one French, was reported pushing southward through the snowclad mountain terrain toward the German out- posts; while the main allied body continues to assemble unhampered at bases along the coast. The Admiralty and War Office, in a joint communique, branded as “quite untrue” a German claim that a transport had been sunk. (The Germans claimed to have sunk one transport after having scored direct hits with heavy bombs on three transports and an allied cruiser.) The army gave the royal navy full credit for the success of the transport operation. Warship guns kept covered landings while Royal Air Force planes overhead scanned sky and sea for Nazi bombers or warships. Force Believed Partly Mechanized. The allied force was believed to be at least partly mechanized and equipped with heavy artillery. To reach what is reported as a rapidly forming German line running east from the seaport of Trondheim, this force must penetrate a craggy and difficult terrain. The French troops which have landed in Norway and are taking part.in the operations, according to & communique from the French high command, probably include some of France's crack mountain fighters. Neutral military observers have such as the famed Chasseurs d'Al- pines fighters would be suited especially to screening the advance of mech- anized forces through a country that has few good roads. Many British troops also are ex- perienced in mountain fighting, on India’s northwest frontier, but there has been no indication whether any of these are included in the British expeditionary force. Steps in Campaign. While the war office continued to withhold details of the campaign, neutral attaches said there could not be much doubt about its broad outlines. Reduced to its essentials, | they said, it would be: to approve the bill, but it still was puzzled. X “Occupy the coast ports, bomb the bases and break the Ger- \ The allied drive, moving out of | man line by simultaneous attacks | on two or three selected spots.” expressed the opinion that troops and Norwegian guerrilla the north toward the key German | positions, thus will be an expand- | ing movement aimed at dispersing the Germans to the protection of | towns along the seacoast. It was emphasized that not until the Ger- man Army has been beaten in the field will the allies strike at Oslo. Simultaneously the navy and air force will continue their attacks on ports held by the Germans and will tighten the blockade to prevent re- inforcements of men, heavy artil- lery and ammunition from reachingl Gen. von Falkenhorst's forces. Feelers for Russian Pact. At home today Britain confirmed that its rancor over the Russian- Finnish war is abating by admit- ting official feelers toward a trade pact with Russia. Soviet sources here declare such a pact long has been sought by the U. 8. S. R. Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax is reported to have told the Russian Ambassador, Ivan Maisky, that Brit- ain is willing to discuss “in an ex- ploratory manner” whether there is a basis for a British-Russian agree- ment. The present war situation and any possible effect such an agree- ment would have on Russia’s trade with Germany will be taken into account, it was disclosed by an offi- cial source. Oliver Stanley, War Secretary, in a broadcast asserted that “The Royal Navy and Air Force have proved themselves more than equal” to the situation presented by the German invasion of Norway. Cow Good Producer Ongar Estill a Friseian cow own- ed by A. M. and H. Rankin of Rock- ford, England, has given in her 14 years 20,000 gallons of milk, enough to fill a special mjlk train. 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Mr. GaSt added that he has already written letters to Maryland Representatives as well as to Sena- tors Millard E. Tydings and George L. Radcliffe asking them to use their influence to speed up the plan as well as to secure the necessary appropriation. “Yesterday morning I learned there were two feet of water at the Peace CroSs intersection and that numerous automobiles had been stalled in the flooded area,” he said. “We have frequently expressed in- dignation that this condition has been allowed to exist as long as it has. The importance of United States highways Nds. 1 and 50 jus- tifles concerted action in eliminating this objectionable condition.” Extensive advertising caused the number of tourists visiting the island of - Bali, Netherlands Indies to increase in 10 years from 1,000 a year to 5,135. This Includes ® EYE EXAMINATION BY Medical Doctor (Oculist) Single or Double Vision Lenses, Your choice of popular styled nH-I‘{ frames or rimiess in 1331 PO AYE, KW, New D. C. Commissioner| To Meet Legislators J. Russell Young will make his debut as a District Commissioner tomorrow before a congressional committee. He was invited and accepted an invitation yesterday to appear be- fore the House District Committee at its regular weekly meeting to- morrow at 10:30 am. The invita- tion was extended by Representa- tive Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, the committee chairman. The committee, Chairman Ran- dolph indicated, does not have any questions to ask the new Commis- sioner, but merely wants to get ac- quainted with him. Memphis Police Impose Baseball Bet Curb By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn—Police figure betting on baseball games won't flourish so much this season if idlers can’t know the scores. The order went out that no tele- graph wires for ticker service would be allowed in places of amusement such as pool halls, drug stofes and the like BETTER DEAL ON PoNTIAC SIX—EIGHT—TORPEDO H. J. BROWN“PONTMC. Inc. Direct ry Dealers Rossiyn, Va. 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G Roosevelt __(Continued From First Page.} ! need practical idealism to make the present machinery function better.” “The next administration,” he re- marked later, “will have to devise ways and means, in a liberal and | progressive spirit, to meet difficul- ties which we are only just begin- ning to appreciate and to analyze.” Drawing a close parallel between the 1940 election and those of 1932 and 1936, even to the point of re- calling that 46 out of 48 States con- founded those who said the Repub- licans had “a chance to win” in 1936, Mr. Roosevelt concluded with a reminder that “the young people of the United States—Young Demo- crats and all the others—have an- other magnificent opportunity to support & government of proven lib- eral action rather than to switch over and take a long chance with a party historically founded on con- servatism.” Reference to World Situation. Only once did the President stray from domestic issues to make refer- ence to the international situation, | on that occasion throwing his dart at Mr. Dewey. “Your Government,” he said, “is| keepirg a cool head and a steady hand in Asia, but I do not subscribe | to the preachment of a Republican aspirant for the presidency who tells you, in effect, that the United States and the people of the United States should do nothing to try to bring | about & better order. A more secure | order, of world peace when the time } This relatively slight emphasis on | foreign affairs was not, of course, indicative of any slackening of his attentiveness toward the Europesn crisis. At least twice during the| day as he put finishing touches to his speech, Mr. Roosevelt talked by telephone with Washington, ceiving each time a carefully pre- | pared digest of foreign news. 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